> On 8 May 2017, at 13:54 , Duncan Murdoch <murdoch.dun...@gmail.com> wrote: > > On 08/05/2017 7:12 AM, Archit Soni wrote: >> Hey Duncan, >> >> There are no sub folders in the folder which its content i want to copy. >> Just 4 files. > > Okay, so you won't need "recursive = TRUE".
Um, wouldn't it work just to do file.copy(old.folder, new.folder, recursive=TRUE) Otherwise, I suspect you need to ensure that the destination exists: dir.create(new.folder) file.copy(list.of.files, new.folder) -pd > >> >> list.files('Old Folder Path') gives me the files in this folder. > > That's not the same as you typed below. In the script below, does > list.of.files contain the right names, with fully specified paths? > >> >> I am running this line that gives me False when running for all the 4 files >> >> file.copy(list.files(oldFolder),newFolder,recursive = TRUE) > > The lack of full.names could cause the problem here, if that's not just a > typo in this message. > > Duncan Murdoch > > >> >> >> >> On Mon, May 8, 2017 at 4:36 PM, Duncan Murdoch <murdoch.dun...@gmail.com >> <mailto:murdoch.dun...@gmail.com>> wrote: >> >> On 08/05/2017 6:59 AM, Archit Soni wrote: >> >> Hey Ben, >> >> I tried this, >> >> # identify the folders >> current.folder <- "C:/Where my files currently live" >> new.folder <- "H:/Where I want my files to be copied to" >> >> # find the files that you want >> list.of.files <- list.files(current.folder, >> "SDM\\.tif$",full.names=T) >> >> # copy the files to the new folder >> file.copy(list.of.files, new.folder) >> >> But i am still getting FALSE and files are not getting copied >> from the >> folder. However,if I give a single file name it copies that file >> to new >> folder. >> >> Any thoughts ? >> >> >> Getting FALSE where? >> >> Does list.of.files look right? >> >> If it contains any directories, you'll want "recursive = TRUE" in >> file.copy(). >> >> Duncan Murdoch >> >> >> >> >> -- >> Regards >> Archit > > ______________________________________________ > R-help@r-project.org mailing list -- To UNSUBSCRIBE and more, see > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help > PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html > and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code. -- Peter Dalgaard, Professor, Center for Statistics, Copenhagen Business School Solbjerg Plads 3, 2000 Frederiksberg, Denmark Phone: (+45)38153501 Office: A 4.23 Email: pd....@cbs.dk Priv: pda...@gmail.com ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list -- To UNSUBSCRIBE and more, see https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.